P3 News and Home Learning w/b 26 February

We had a great week, last week in P3 with lots happening and we are looking forward to another exciting and busy week ahead. On Mondays, Ms Brunner and P3 have been looking at money and recognising coins and change from various amounts. On Wednesday and Thursday we started looking at fractions, whole, halves, quarters and thirds using different cakes that we divided in to pieces to represent the different fractions, it was all a bit sticky but very sweet.

P3 spent time last week working on what Respect looks like in school, the community and what Respect means to them. We will be displaying these messages throughout the school and in the classroom to reminds how important respect is in our school. P3 also made a decision on their next topic and they were asked to vote on a country that they wished to research and compare to Scotland. They had to vote between Japan, Mexico and New Zealand and they voted for…

We will be looking at the country and its traditions, food and features. P3 will research these areas and then compare them to Scotland.

Home Learning this week will be issued on Monday in the home learning bags and should be returned on Friday. This week in the bag will be Spelling words, a book to read for pleasure, Maths challenge sheet and a home learning topic grid. In our mental maths strategies we are moving to the orange band on our rainbow, numbers before and after. I have provided three of the challenges with examples to support learning at home and Ms Brunner has provided further strategies on the blog. The home learning topic grid is based on one of the countries that P3 had voted on, Mexico and although Japan won the vote some of the class had expressed an interest in looking at Mexico. I hope that they enjoy the challenges. I would like to remind you to provide your child with in a PE kit and PE shoes to change into for their PE sessions Tuesday and Thursday. Can I also request that no toys are bought into school as this can cause upset in the classroom and distract from the children’s learning.